April 5 - Obama's Uphill Battle Selling the Iran Deal; Saudis Try to Buy Military Help in Yemen; The Massacre of University Students in Kenya

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with the campaign to kill the just-announced P5+1 deal with Iran with Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu apparently leading the charge to rally Republican support in Congress against the deal that Obama is now trying to sell to the American people. A former State Department Policy advisor, Suzanne Maloney, a Senior Fellow of Foreign Policy at the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brooking Institution and author of “Iran’s Long Reach: Iran as a Pivotal State in the Middle East”, joins us to discuss the president’s uphill battle that has just begun to sell the Iran deal.

Part 2

Then we look into whether the Saudis can buy the military support they need to stabilize and secure Yemen as Saudi airstrikes continue to inflame the deteriorating situation on the ground. Gregory Gause, Chair and Professor of International Affairs at Texas A&M and author of “Saudi-Yemeni Relations: Domestic Structures and Foreign Influence” joins us to discuss the Saudi’s intervention in Yemen led by the son of the new king who is trying to entice Pakistan and Egypt to commit boots on the ground, a strategy that could backfire given Egypt’s sorry history of its prior intervention in Yemen.

Part 3

Then finally we speak with a governance monitor with the African Union who has investigated the social and political conditions of Somali refugees in Kenya, in particular in Garissa, the site of the recent massacre of Christian university students by Al-Shabab gunmen who are trying to drive a wedge between Kenya’s majority Christian and its minority Muslim community.George Nzongola, Professor of African Studies at the University of North Carolina and the past President of the African Studies Association of the United States, joins us.